Ruhen Olaf Text (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. ISBN 085179176X. Hardback. Later Printing. Very Good condition book with small bookstore sticker on bottom of front free endpaper, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with clear magic tape repair to reverse side, minor chips, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Small closedtears to top edge of dustjacket. Maps to endpapers. Black & white illustrations by Cedric Emanuel. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 62 pages.…

Hardback. 1976. Reprint. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 247 pages. Illustrated, lightly chipped at back of dust jacket. Plastic wrapper.

hardcover in good condition, owner's name on flyleaf, lightly foxed, dustwrapper faded on spine; 118 pages, b/w illusts, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

Reprint. Hardcover. Oblong quarto-size. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story of the Pleistocene period, about gigantic , gentle herbivorous creatures called diprotodons, based on skeleton discoveries made in the area of Lake Callabonna, 'place of many waters', in South Australia, first in 1893 and later in 1953. Illustrated in b/w by Peter Pavey, his first book.…

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. unpaginated, folio brown leather with gilt title and author to front board, numerous black and white illustrations, a beautiful copy of a beautiful edition of this classic work. Limited to 400 copies in the UK, signed and numbered, this is copy #67, singed by Emanuel. tight binding, clean throughout, crisp pages, very slight edge wear, Near Fine. Cedric Emanuel (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. First Printing. Limited Edition (No. 1316 of 1600 copies for Australia). Signed by the artist on the Title/Limitation Page. Publisher's full brown faux-leather, gilt lettering on cover, illustrated endpapers, fore-edge deckle. Profusely illustrated with B&W drawings by Cedric Emanuel. Printed on heavy artist's stock. Unpaginated (80 pp.). In original acetate wrapper. The drawings illustrate the survival of traditional Australian farming, stockmanship, rural crafts, fishing, forestry, sheep shearing, sea-faring, gold mining, etc. Cedric Raymond Emanuel OAM (19061995) was a New Zealand born Australian representational painter, illustrator and printmaker. Speaking at the 1995 Retrospectives exhibition of Emanuel's works, New South Wales Governor Rear-Admiral Peter Sinclair pointed to the artist's speciality in drawing and painting "scenes of yesteryear, and of buildings and locations that are national heritage items". He was an important Australian visual historian, "for almost seventy years" sketching and painting the "rapidly changing scenes of Australia from the outback to the inner suburbs of Sydney". The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The acetate wrapper has one open tear on the rear panel. A large, heavy book (four pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply. AS NEW. Drawings. Folio 13" - 23" tall. (80) pp. Signed by Illustrator. Illustrated by Cedric Emanuel (illustrator).…